"This was my first time to Mac’s and all I’d been hearing around town for years was “gotta try it”! So we were in the square and decided to give it a shot. The ambience was nice at first glance but as you keep looking around, it lacked a certain uniqueness I was hoping to find in such a recommended spot. Our sever was kind, prompt and attentive, but our menu tour was more of a laundry list of items on the menu rather than a guide into why Mac’s is so “known”. We ended up splitting the 14oz NY Strip and the side dish trio. We ordered mid rare, and it came that way, but somehow they managed to keep a reddish/pink center while still burning the outside. I’m glad we got the side trio( we chose Mac n cheese, asparagus and fries) bc if we had only gotten one side I would’ve wondered if they were all mid like this. Turns out they are… and the Mac n cheese tasted microwaved. So with ordering only the steak(69) and trio sides (18) our total came out to about $89 and some change. With a 20% tip we spent $107. The staff was kind all around, but the food was not hitting it. It could totally be that my expectations of this place were different from what I experienced, but with going out to eat getting increasingly more expensive, the perception of value HAS to be there, and it just was not there on this one —"
